I was working at a greenhouse that stored tropical plants over the winter for wealthy clients and someone's "man" -- I don't know what his actual job or relation to this client was and only ever heard him described as this -- was due to bring a delivery truck with 6 or so 10 foot tall lemon trees in pots. This was the day that only me and another small non-man employee were in the building, but we were told he had a handcart and we weren't expected to move anything. But then he did, I fear, drive the truck into the building for a little kiss because he didn't know that the height of the truck was several feet taller than our garage door. And then as me and my coworker were jogging up to the door yelling for him to stop, he did of course repeat this for some reason. And then he was so rattled he basically begged us for help moving the delivery down from the truck onto the floor of the greenhouse.
For reference if you've never seen a lemon tree they get BIG ASS villainously sharp spines on the branches that are spaced out just enough they're difficult to spot, so moving them is harrowing. Especially when they're so tall that the person navigating the handcart has the branches directly in their face once the cart is at an angle sufficient to push it and you have to 100% rely on a buddy to direct you forward. And even moreso! When you're looking at your coworker like is this guy tweaking!! Is he going to drop this big honking spiked tree on us or himself!!
Anyways we all lived and we didn't drop the trees and later he explained he was just a little eepy so it's fine!
Apr 26, 2024
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Today at work, someone was training to fall of the roof, a stunt at the end of all of our cowboy shows. When he fell I saw this dark spot on his neck, with itty bity legs too! I thought iād be the hero and snatch it off his neck, so i yelled, āyo hold up you got a tick on your neckā and i pushed his head out of the way, yanking at the ātickā. It was IN THERE, so i just kept pulling on it, but everyone else around was like, āwait thatās a moleā¦ā and the guy said āim just jewish itās okayā
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small boy put a plastic roach under some packaged sliced ham on the grocery store conveyor belt. i jumped
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when a 40 something man called and screamed at the top of his lungs at me , the type of scream Iāve only received before from my mother, because I told him we were booked and he would have to take his dog to the emergency vet (Iām a vet tech) and he was screaming threats at me and said his whole family goes to my hospital and theyāll never go again blah blah blah. but he didnāt know his mom LOVED ME. and she made him call back and apologize the next day.
ALSO. one time this guy came in and was like. can you scan this dog for a microchip, I took my dog to a board and train facility and when I went to pick him up they gave me this dog , and this is NOT my dogā¦ and he tried to tell the place that but they gaslit him and he was hours from home and it was getting late and he had to work in the morning so he took the dog, and it wasnāt his dog , they sent his dog home with someone else. Dogs were swapped back it all ended well
my job is always crazy, crazy clients, crazy animals, dealing with euthanasias everyday, and when I have to cut animals or pets heads off to send them out for rabies testing
Apr 19, 2024
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Iām sick of feeling powerless so my new coping strategy is to not let a stupid system bully me into quiet despair. Iām learning how to use my stateās General Assemblyās online bill tracker and Iām subscribing to email updates for the agendas and the public hearings of the legislative committees Iām most concerned about. Iām memorizing all my legislatorsā names and emailing and calling regularly.
Also: Check to see if your stateās Legislative Library has Libguides that explain in laymanās terms what bills are passing in your state and other educational/legislative resources you have freely available to you!!!
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Iām up in my bank account every week writing every transaction out in a spreadsheet and Iāve never been better with money in my whole life. Also helped me notice asap when a whole mess of fraudulent transactions slipped in while I was occupied moving and otherwise wouldnāt have seen them for a while. Itās absolutely more effective than a Mint budget tracker because you have to confront EVERY purchase and contemplate what actually has value to you.
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